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zygote on 16 May 2017
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SvennoJ said:
zygote said:

Wow you are going really far into the future with your question positioning, but you mix it too much with limited modern functions.

Mobile is going to be the future for now or, at least, more flexible systems, however I do not think it will be phones. Phone functions may be important but that industry is not where the change is happening. I think ... ...

So you basically foresee the comeback of the pda. It should happen when mobile data networks become more open and more mobile devices can connect to the internet from anywhere. But I think it's more likely all your data is going to be in the cloud instead of on the device, most of it already is anyway.

About that world destroying itself, it seems the AI revolution is starting to happen. I was following GTC 2017 for VR news, yet what stood out to me was all the advances in AI: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/tag/gtc-2017/?doing_wp_cron=1494621353.5327520370483398437500
AI for self driving cars, medical robots, accelerating health care, interpreting sign language, reading and predicting your emotions, story telling, raytracing, product creation and many more. NVidia is really promoting the use of AI in business solutions.

Interesting times ahead.

It wouldn't really be a pda or a smartphone or a gaming device or remote control or any other singularly defined thing that we know today.  The easiest way to describe in today's terms would be an HOD interface, but it does not necessarily have to be a head mounted device.  It could be a wristband, shoulder strap, lapel pin, or some other form that hasn't been thought of yet.  The person who does come up with it will be that generation's Bill Gates or Steve Jobs.  It wouldn't hold any data necessarily but would interface with all data remotely using the cloud or cloud-like technology.  I do think security methods will be panned out around the same time, not eliminated, but more controlled and reasonable. 

As far as AI, it is a player in all of these developments, but I highly doubt it will be a driving force or anything other than a slave to necessity for some of these transitions.  For instance, Amazon Echo and Google Home in their limited functionality is something that we should have had on the market 6 years or longer ago, however even in their current state are not developed enough to become a cultural phenomenon.  There is so much potential but so little interest in developing the tech beyond the initial device.  Sure, we will have better iterations of the existing tech that will generate new companies with personal home robotics, but that is such a hazy prospect with current trends.  It will happen, but not fast, similar to the car industry.  This tells me that the pull for better AI is limited to market necessity, not demand.  Both Amazon and Google probably see the potential for the tech on society, but seem to be somewhat satisfied with its gradual progression.  Other tech though like VR and Hologram technology as well as the game market that is driving a lot of it is much more driven and competitive.  That is why it is more likely that movement is going to happen there first and then incorporate through partnerships these other elements along the way.  Whichever industry creates this device will determine how we look at it.  If it first is developed in the game hardware succession, then we will traditionally view it as a game system; If it is derived from the phone industry, then we would think of it as a phone; etc; etc.